YouTube: the Thatcher decade

With the video now more or less obsolete Politics teachers have lost a valuable visual resource. Unless your school has been helpful by digitising your old tapes your major port of call may now well be YouTube.

Here we provide a summary of the Thatcher years.

Mrs Thatcher enters Downing Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ3WJRvZeN8

The lady’s not for turning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBPCFfxZij8

Mrs Thatcher on the Belgrano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aZdAyHVjzQ

Miners’ strike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCxISagpIpU

The opposition leader looks foolish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh8ktNsie0I

Popular capitalism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Qq01tC0lU

The loadsamoney years?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClPTFmsxbi4&feature=related

Geoffrey Howe’s resignation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1C2hieHKgA

Poll tax riots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVquOmFJ0U&feature=related

Mrs Thatcher resigns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTDS23DY670